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Despite the theoretical appeal of a liberalised investment and trading regime, there has arisen in recent years a groundswell of opposition - much of it emanating from NGOs in both the developing and developed world. The abandonment of the MAI in 1998 unique phenomenon: for the first time, NGOs had blocked a proposal that had been backed up by the world's richest countries and the largest corporations. In 1999, NGOs were instrumental in halting WTO negotiations in Seattle. It became clear that NGOs were beginning to have a significant impact on the international competitive environment, and indeed on the process of 'globalisation' itself which, in turn, was inevitably going to affect the global strategies of TNCs. The working hypothesis of this paper is that globalisation has, to date, negatively impacted on many developing countries' (especially the poorest) ability to drive forward the development process and deal effectively with their internal poverty problems. In essence, the increasing interdependence in the world economy has exacerbated the challenges of development and poverty alleviation. This paper aims to explore the processes involved in this from the standpoint of NGOs active in East Asia, in particular, the Philippines - where there has been significant recent TNC investment and NGO activity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization - political and economic - processes have an effect on practically all countries, the East Asian nation-states included. The effect is obviously not uniform, even not across East Asia. This paper intends to build on the extensive literature ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What will be countries, mainly developing countries, in East Asia get from the valorized globalization? Since much benefits have been studied, this paper tries to reveal some miseries such as informalization of labor,which have been neglected by the mainstream economic and developmental analyses, by a critical examination of the impacts of globalization.The authors will focus on the issues such as the changes in the labor market, the informalization of work and so on in term of reproductive, productive and virtual economics. Also several cases mainly from China and some other countries will be analyzed. All the efforts in this work are aiming to provide a new viewpoint for the people and decision-makers to recognize the mixed blessings brought by globalization and to reevaluate and rectify the distorted outcomes of some existing biased polices. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How does globalization affect the way that states respond to international migration? There is little doubt that various elements of globalization have served to facilitate the volume and diversity of international migration flows. The scope and scale of global migration has reached unprecedented heights. Accompanying this increase in flows has been an increasing politicization of the issue and demand for higher levels of state control, particularly in migrant receiving countries. Because of its links to sovereignty, policy responses have traditionally been unilateral; however, there is increasing realization that such measures are insufficient to reach desired levels of control and coordination. Over the past 25 years, we have begun to see a significant shift in this orientation, as states increasingly seek to coordinate their efforts through bi- and multilateral cooperation and coordination. I hypothesize that this growing "policy internationalism" is the product of 1) globalization and its effects, and 2) political learning and the resulting evolution of ideas regarding international migration and its economic, social, and political effects. Using a comparative case study method, I explain regional variation in policy internationalism in Western Europe, North America, and East Asia through the lens of interdependence. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article considers how traditional approaches to international relations (IR) account for the establishment of international society in East Asia and the central structures and processes that they identify. It details why some of the staples of the discipline of IR, like security and the state, appear different in an East Asian context. It offers a contemporary illustration of the way East Asia is being affected by processes and relationships associated with globalization.

The article examines the impact of globalization on regional economic integration in East Asia. It surveys the development of regional economic integration, placing important trends and developments in the context of the approaches to security by East Asian states. It analyzes the evolution of regional and global transnational economic activity in China. The regional impact of the emergence of China as a transnational economic actor is examined.

Globalization has increased vulnerability of the economies to crises. Integrated global capital market requires sophisticated “governance” structure to maintain sound flows of capital. Both the emerging countries and the developed countries are exposed to potential financial systemic risk. The burst of Japanese financial bubble in the early 1990s and the Asian currency crisis in 1997 showed the limitations of financial governance in Asian economies. Comparison between Japan and the countries most seriously affected (MSAs) by the Asian currency crisis, revealed common issues in “financial governance.” Financial governance includes crisis management and crisis prevention. Crisis management, on the one hand, means deposit insurance and liquidity support in the middle and after the financial crisis. In response to the Asian crisis, several liquidity schemes have developed in the regional and global level. Crisis prevention, on the other hand, includes prudential regulations such as minimum capital requirement and loan classification. Prudential regulations heavily involve a domestic political structure so that regional and international initiatives have not functioned well. The burst of Japanese financial bubble and the Asian financial crisis are rooted in the combination of low prudential regulations and deregulated capital mobility. Profit-padding prudential regulations, which entangled with developmental strategies by the Asian countries, did not function to check gambling behaviors by banks. Instead, restrictions on banking activities limited business opportunities for the banking sector, which made entry into risky real estate business more attractive. In order to maintain effective crisis prevention measures, the countries need to search another way to govern financial market, whereas replacing the developmental strategies. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]